Finding Your Self-Motivation Can Be Challenging Wondering how to be self-motivated? Yea, #metoo. It’s normal to feel like you don’t know how to find your groove, it happens to everyone at some point. It’s frustrating to realize you are lacking motivation. Let’s think about it, who taught us how to be self-motivated? When were we…
Start Over At 50 And Create A Life You Love!
If you are starting over at 50, you are headed for the biggest adventure of your life! Even if you are struggling with fear and doubt, never forget you have what it takes to create a life you love! Starting Over At 50 After A Divorce? You Can Do It! Starting over at 50 can…
How To Be Grateful On Your Birthday And Feel Better About Life
So, it’s your birthday. And you are struggling with guilt because you don’t know how to be grateful on your birthday. Maybe this past year has been a giant suck hole of frustration. I understand, it happens! Midlife Birthdays Can Be Depressing Reminders Of Aging Okay, let’s normalize the fact that birthdays can lose their…
Stuck Living A Stagnant Life? Try These Powerful Ideas!
Do you feel stuck? Frustrated? Like maybe you are living a stagnant life? Feeling Stuck = Feeling Stagnant Yea, me too friend, me too. By the time we reach midlife, we have learned (too often it seems) that to take a risk can be dangerous. And painful. So, we unconsciously choose safety to avoid feeling…
How To Stop Living On Auto Pilot And Manage Your Anxiety
Do you want to stop living on auto pilot? Midlife can seem to be an endless loop of the same shit, different day (or SSDD if you are into acronyms). Wake up, drink the coffee, get dressed and trudge through the day, fighting a growing sense of discontent and ignoring the mental alarm screaming about…
Self-Forgiveness Will Change Your Life For The Better
As a life coach, one of the most common issues my clients bring to our sessions is the inability to practice self-forgiveness. Self-Forgiveness Can Be Difficult Being a midlife woman is complicated. We have decades of choices behind us, each choice creating the very life we have today. And sometimes, we just want to bitch…
Midlife Anxiety Can Be Painful, Try This Helpful Tip!
Midlife anxiety sucks. It’s a little different than general anxiety because midlife anxiety usually arrives with a bonus feature: an existential crisis thrown in for free! Welcome to Midlife, Here’s Your Anxiety Starter Pack! There is something unique about midlife anxiety. For most of us, we navigate a general sense of anxiety daily. It might…
How To Apologize To Your Adult Kids Because It’s Important
Apologizing is hard. Apologizing to your adult kids is even more difficult. As much as I dislike it, as a parent, I have had times when I didn’t handle things well. And as a result, I owed my adult kids an apology. Why Is It So Hard to Apologize To Our Adult Kids? One of…
Empty Nest Grief Is Real, How To Stop The Hurt
Empty Nest Grief The past two weeks I have attended two group events, one professional and one social. At each event, I met a middle- aged woman who was struggling with empty nest issues. As I listened to each of them talk, it became obvious that they had unrecognized grief around their children leaving home….
How To Stop Financially Supporting Your Adult Children
Do you find yourself financially supporting your adult children? Does it make you feel resentment or anger? Empty Nest Pro Tip: Quit giving your adult kids money to keep them dependent on you. If only it was that easy, right? So, when is the right time to stop financially supporting adult kids? Are You Financially…